Quality Manager

Growve•Washington, UT

34d•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to the VP of Quality, the Quality Manager will assist in developing the Quality strategy and lead all day-to-day activities for our Sunwarrior team. This role will utilize personal experience and expertise in the areas of food safety, food quality, and good manufacturing and sanitation practices to provide strategic leadership and tactical support to all departments, ensuring Growve products are produced with the utmost quality. The QA/QC Manager’s primary responsibility is to assist with growing the capabilities of the QA/QC department, with a focus on dietary supplements, beadlets, powder blending and encapsulation.

Requirements

5+ years in the Quality Manufacturing industry, preferably for a Dietary Supplement manufacturing.
Label Review, Formulation, HACCP, Food Defense, Root Cause Analysis knowledge preferred.
Must possess good interpersonal and strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
Effective organizational, prioritization, and time management.
Must have excellent attention to detail.
Must always possess a safe attitude.
Be reliable, motivated, organized and be able to work in a dynamic fast-paced team-driven environment.
Have a commitment to Safety, Quality and Productivity.
Self-motivated and ability to take initiative and use sound judgment in day-to-day decision making
Punctual and reliable in work attendance
Ability to read and write legibly in English/Spanish
Ability to learn various work processes.
Ability to work flexible hours and be willing to adapt to changes in orders and tasks.
Weekend work may be necessary on occasion.
Able to handle the typical stress of meeting deadlines and achieving improved results.
Ability to read, interpret and effectively communicate necessary policies and procedures to others.
Bachelor’s degree in food science, Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Nutrition, Exercise Science, or an applicable scientific discipline.
1-2 years’ Quality experience or more with nutritional supplements, dietary ingredients, food, or equivalent experience as it pertains to this role.

Responsibilities

Responsible for overseeing activities related to safety, consistency, and quality of dietary supplement and nutritional manufactured products.
Responsible for Quality Assurance and Regulatory personnel and processes.
Maintain quality systems and improve programs to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements for dietary supplements and nutritional products (cGMP, GDP, 21 CFR 111, HACCP, FSMA, SQF, NSF, GFCO, TGA, etc).
Lead internal and external audit processes (regulatory, certification, and customer).
Escalate quality and food safety issues and presents plausible solutions.
Conduct training for team members and other departments as necessary and appropriate.
Oversee formal raw material Supplier Qualification process.
Oversee raw material sampling, label control, and retention processes.
Oversee review and approval of documentation (production records, specifications, change orders, etc), including finished product release approval.
Organize and ensure completion of non-conformances, complaints, investigations, Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA).
Understand and ensure compliance to relevant regulatory requirements (FDA, NSF, TGA, Health Canada, etc.).
Assist with enforcement of the cGMP policy, food safety and defense plans, personal hygiene policy, etc.
Manage established quality systems as defined by standard operating procedures.
Perform annual reviews with employees as required.
Address personnel issues as necessary.
Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge of HACCP principles include verification and validation activities.
Assist manufacturing and quality teams and provide them with necessary services to ensure the highest quality products.
Follow procedures to ensure production of quality products, as well as cost effective reductions.
Meet all safety expectations including wearing the required personnel protective equipment, cGMP gowning garb and follow all safe practices.
Cross training will occur throughout the facility in all aspects of high-speed manufacturing.
Work with production and give technical support to assist with manufacturing our products following all production standard procedures (kitting, mixing/blending, beadlet manufacturing, encapsulating, packaging, boxing, and labeling of the product).
Prepare and maintain materials and equipment at the start, during, and end of production.
This role will ensure production schedule, standards, quality, sanitation, and safety, are key elements to their day-to-day responsibilities.
Working with fellow team members, learning, and understanding quality, production and sanitation principles to optimize production flow and efficiency will be key.
This role will follow operational activities with the help of other personnel at all levels that lead to outstanding operational performance.